Re: web sites going dark

2001-09-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
learn that they're just trying to nail Jello to a tree - and that it's explosive Jello to boot. Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech

Re: World war 3

2001-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
determined adversary in the Internet arena could be REALLY bad news. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: Rumor about US disaster

2001-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
calculations to sanity check numbers. Use a calculator if you have to. Especially when posting to a technical forum. Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech

Re: rfc 3030 comments...

2001-09-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
if the beginning-of-line requirement applies if BDAT is in use, or how it would be handled if binary data was being transmitted. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: Acronyms

2001-09-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
to be known by the audience, the first use should be spelled out and then the acronym presented. For example: In other news, the Internet Society (ISOC) announced.. Additionally, this is a good spot to add definitions or expository material. Valdis Kletnieks

Re: MPLS,IETF, etc..

2001-09-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
other things that many people are confused - Does it *really* slice, dice, *and* make Julienne fries? Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech

Re: Mailing Lists

2001-08-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:43:55 EDT, Meritt James said: Which Jim? We are BOTH James? Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, Bruce and myself.. But my name's not Bruce Well, that's going to make it a bit confusing, isn't it? (With apologies to Monty Python) /Valdis (who never seems to have that problem for some

Re: Resume command for ESMTP?

2001-08-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
as their mail server runs out of queue space. And that's why there isn't a RESUME. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: Resume command for ESMTP?

2001-08-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
probably having the trouble talking to. So What do you think? Anybody that support the idea and want to develop it further? Well.. I still think that the *proper* solution is to fix the TCP infrastructure so that there isn't a NEED for a RESUME -- Valdis

Re: Resume command for ESMTP?

2001-08-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 05 Aug 2001 16:14:36 MDT, Alexey Melnikov said: SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart RFC 1845. Damn. How did that sneak by me? ;) /Valdis PGP signature

Re: Any value in this list ?

2001-08-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:29:03 +0200, Anthony Atkielski said: no, it's more like blaming automobile manufacturers for producing cars whose brakes fail when used normally. No, it's more like blaming automobile manufacturers for brakes that don't apply themselves when the driver is too stupid

Re: Any value in this list ?

2001-07-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
heuristic is called for. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: filtering active content

2001-07-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
bet most of the 300K machines that got hacked are still unpatched and still infected. It's gonna be a LONG week guys. Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech

Re: IPv4 vs MAC

2001-07-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
by subnetting and the eventual need for CIDR so routing tables could be aggregated were still a decade down the road. Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech

Re: duplicate messages on IETF mailing lists

2001-07-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
was that running anything pre 8.9.3 isn't a good idea at all in today's Internet. Upgrade to 8.11.4, or 8.12.0 will be out very shortly. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP

Re: Attachment Stripped in Transaction

2001-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:37:33 BST, Lloyd Wood said: The message is that the IETF's work in describing protocols is done only in the basic protocol of text. Correct. If it can't be described in text, it probably can't be implemented in text as a computer program either. The point I was

Re: why cant this list clean up the spam!!??

2001-07-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
capabilities. We knew about the issues when we did MIME. Complain to the implementors. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Broken mail systems.

2001-07-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
Whereas: The Internet standards state that automatically generated error messages should be directed at the SMTP MAIL FROM: address, which is often locatable in the Return-Path: header. Whereas: Certain software vendors fail to respect said standards, resulting in their software annoying

Re: Comparison of ICAP and SOAP

2001-07-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
(trimming back the cc: list for sanity) On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:26:01 PDT, Mark Nottingham said: Many involved in the development of SOAP acknowledge the limitations of using HTTP. However, SOAP is being designed to allow multiple bindings underneath, not just HTTP; HTTP is only the chartered

Re: Whither OPES? [was: Antigen found W32/Hybris.gen@MM (McAfee4,Sophos) virus]

2001-07-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:01:40 PDT, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Interesting... seems to be a message generated by an intermediary that used a heuristic to vector the message and effect a transformation... Unfortunately, that transformation was performed without proper knowledge of

Re: Re[2]: too many Out of Office AutoReply

2001-06-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:05:18 +0530, Ashutosh Agarwal said: I personally would like to receive some kind of ACK from the person whom I am trying to send a mailso that I am rest assured that the mail has Some of us do *NOT* like getting 15 or 20 such messages from people we have never heard

Re: too many Out of Office AutoReply

2001-06-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
, not configurable, and the organizations afflicted with it need to be sent a 'Your clue must be -THIS- tall to ride the Internet' notice? -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP

Re: IPv6

2001-06-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
://www.bieringer.de/linux/IPv6/ is a good source as well. -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: too many Out of Office AutoReply

2001-06-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
this cookbook, please let me know -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: I am *NOT* a believer in the democratic process.

2001-06-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:01:03 PDT, Brian Lloyd said: threshing process. I see entirely too little threshing going on in the IETF these days. I think we worry to much that people will get their little feelers hurt. Send them my way. I'm renowned for my ability to tell almost anybody, in

Re: WG Review: Open Pluggable Edge Services (opes)

2001-06-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:58:48 MDT, Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From: Adam Shostack [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Yes. I made a point of saying The threat under discussion is that there is a proxy modifying content... because this discussion started with OPES. In that particular